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In Depression Era Mississippi, SKINNY JO is a fiercely independent young woman who’s out to take care of her family, and nothing will stop her. She sells stolen goods for the money needed to buy marijuana from TOMBI, the Choctaw medicine man, in order to treat her mother’s epilepsy. Along the way she runs into BILLY, a former beau-turned-bootlegger, who she eventually must appeal to for help.

we watched sky fall last night and it was a bit blah. javier bardem was awesome ugly though.

Agreed. A lot of it was cool, but... the dialogue just wasn't clever enough. There were tons of plot holes and some bad editing that made some of it a bit confusing at first. For instance...

***SPOILERS***

... when he took out the bullet fragments and had them analyzed, we were all 'What the fuck? Didn't the freakin' girl shoot him? Why would that lead to some assassin?' I noticed a lot of people were giving off confused sounds in the audience, so we weren't alone. I let it go in hopes of that being explained later (like Bond knew something we didn't) but that never happened. It wasn't 'til later that we remembered he was shot before that in some small scene and we were like "Oooooh, okay. But now we can ask why the fuck a super assassin would use such a fucking rare kind of bullet?" I mean, I realize this is James Bond, but this is gritty James Bond.

But last night my friends and I spent the night talking about The Land Before Time, Milo and Otis, and Snoopy. And how they affected our childhoods and how the different characters represented different things to us then and now.

All of which were awesome. I'm surprised to see New Jersey Drive is only rated 6.5 on IMDB. The actors are mostly nobodies, and the story is told in such a way that a lot of scenes aren't relevant to the overall plot, but it isn't at all a plot driven movie, more a portrait of a place and time. As such it should be judged, and a lot of people from that place and time agree with the movie's depiction of it. It deserves a 7.0 because a 6.5 on IMDB just looks ugly.

The Warriors is like getting hit with a 2x4 that secretes liquid kickass when it breaks open on your face. Today, every tough guy in a movie is actually a pampered Hollywood type with a personal trainer, a guy who is at his toughest in a temperature controlled gym doing one last set before heading into the sauna to loosen up for his massage. These guys in The Warriors are tall, skinny, starved looking coyote type motherfuckers, and even though one Dwayne Johnson would probably beat up everybody in this movie, it's great seeing them fight with beer bottles and chains and baseball bats, all over a dystopian backdrop; this is how bad guys looked in Streets of Rage, Double Dragon, old Spiderman comics, 80s action movies. I dig.

A Bronx Tale is the best of the five movies I watched. It's about a boy who is torn between two father figures: one is played by Robert Deniro who directs the movie; he plays a bus driver who values working class tradition and is the boy's natural father; the other father figure is a mafia boss played by Chazz Palminteri, who wrote the script. So while Deniro and Palminteri portray fathers to a boy, they're also both fathers of the film.

There's real wisdom in this movie. I remember seeing it as a kid and could never remember what it was called, but a scene stuck with me. The kid is about to go on his first date and the mafia guy lends him his car and tells him about a 'test'. He says to lock his own door, go around the car to open the door for his date, and then walk back around to his own door. If she doesn't reach over to unlock his door, dump her: she's a selfish broad and you're only seeing the tip of the iceberg.

That's the mafia guy's advice on a first date. It always seemed extreme to me. The working man's advice is this, spoken with all the sincerity of Robert Deniro: Sometimes in the heat of passion, the little head tells the big head what to do, and the big head should think twice about what you are doing.

The Expendables 2 was just my kind of ridiculous. Infinite bad guys, Jean Claude as villain, Arnold and Bruce Willis in a smart car, Chuck Norris saying a Chuck Norris joke and being OP.

Die Hard, of course, is the best Christmas movie ever. You should have heard your brother scream when I broke his fucking neck.

I rewatched A Bronx Tale recently, too. It really is a pretty great film. Also, that casting... C looks exactly like you'd imagine Robert DeNiro's kid to look. I think that guy is in jail now. Too bad.

i saw this german film called 'the wave'. it's interesting as a social experiment and i liked it.

from the wiki:

The high school is having a project week and Wenger discusses autocracy with his class. His students, third generation after the Second World War,[1] do not believe that a dictatorship could be established in modern Germany, so Wenger starts an experiment to demonstrate how easily the masses can be manipulated.

Two classes are chosen: Wenger's to be the autocracy group, and another to be the anarchy one. Since Wenger himself is an anarchist, he accepts his role only because the other teacher refused to switch. However, he goes into the project with enthusiasm and, as a popular teacher, has the students' full attention.

i saw this german film called 'the wave'. it's interesting as a social experiment and i liked it.

from the wiki:

The high school is having a project week and Wenger discusses autocracy with his class. His students, third generation after the Second World War,[1] do not believe that a dictatorship could be established in modern Germany, so Wenger starts an experiment to demonstrate how easily the masses can be manipulated.

Two classes are chosen: Wenger's to be the autocracy group, and another to be the anarchy one. Since Wenger himself is an anarchist, he accepts his role only because the other teacher refused to switch. However, he goes into the project with enthusiasm and, as a popular teacher, has the students' full attention.

This was an after school special from the 80s (same name and everything).

There's real wisdom in this movie. I remember seeing it as a kid and could never remember what it was called, but a scene stuck with me. The kid is about to go on his first date and the mafia guy lends him his car and tells him about a 'test'. He says to lock his own door, go around the car to open the door for his date, and then walk back around to his own door. If she doesn't reach over to unlock his door, dump her: she's a selfish broad and you're only seeing the tip of the iceberg.

This scene stuck with me for a long time (though it doesn't hold up with automatic locks).

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